Friday, November 23, 2012

Next
month the final of nine mobsters or associates charged in a sweeping
crackdown on organized crime will be sentenced, and just over a year
later another defendant will once again taste freedom.
Theodore
Cardillo, an admitted mob associate who helped facilitate the shakedown
of area strip clubs will be sentenced on December 11. He will likely be
the only defendant not to see any prison time as court documents show
the Rhode Island U.S. Attorney's office is recommending six months in
home confinement followed by just over four years of probation.
Investigators
say those protection payments went to the former New England mob boss
Luigi 'Baby Shacks' Manocchio, who pleaded guilty to racketeering
earlier this year. He is currently at a prison in North Carolina and is
scheduled to be released in November 2015.
The first defendant to
possibly be released from prison is Thomas Iafrate, a mob associate who
was a bookkeeper at the Cadillac Lounge strip club. Prosecutors say he
acted as a runner for the protection payments. He was the first to plead
guilty and will also face probation when he is released.
Next to
possibly see freedom is Raymond "Scarface" Jenkins in May 2014,
according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons website. Jenkins was accused
of taking part in the extortion of a Johnston used car salesman whose
wife tapped into a retirement account to pay the mobster $25,000 out of
fear for her husband's safety.
Also taking part in the extortion
scheme according to prosecutors was capo regime Edward "Eddie" Lato.
Because of his extensive criminal record Lato received the stiffest
sentence and is set to be released in July 2019.
Mob associate Albino Folcarelli also pleaded guilty to extortion and is scheduled to be released in October 2017.
Six
months prior to Folacrelli's release, mob associate Richard Bonafiglia –
who was involved in the strip club scheme – is scheduled to be
released. Co-defendant Alfred "Chippy" Scivola was sentenced to just
less than four years, but has not yet been assigned a prison.
Also
waiting for a new home is the reputed acting mob boss, Anthony DiNunzio
of East Boston. He was the last to feel the sting in the investigation,
charged with taking over in the strip club shakedown scheme after
Manocchio was arrested.